The design of future things

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Author:

Norman, Donald A.

ISBN:

9780465002283

Personal Author:

Norman, Donald A.

Edition:

1st pbk. ed.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

viii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Contents:

Cautious cars and cantankerous kitchens: how machines take control -- The psychology of people & machines -- Natural interaction -- Servants of our machines -- The role of automation -- Communicating with our machines -- The future of everyday things -- Afterword: The machine's point of view.

Abstract:

In this book, Donald Norman presents a revealing examination of smart technology. Exploring the links between design and psychology, he offers a consumer-oriented theory of natural human-machine interaction that can be put into practice by the engineers and industrial designers of tomorrow's blinking machines.--[book cover].

Subject Term:

Industrial design -- Psychological aspects.

Human engineering.

Human engineering. (OCoLC)fst00963014

Industrial design -- Psychological aspects. (OCoLC)fst01730201

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Donald A. Norman, a popular design consultant to car manufacturers, computer companies, and other industrial and design outfits, has seen the future and is worried. In this long-awaited follow-up to The Design of Everyday Things , he points out what's going wrong with the wave of products just coming on the market and some that are on drawing boards everywhere-from "smart" cars and homes that seek to anticipate a user's every need, to the latest automatic navigational systems. Norman builds on this critique to offer a consumer-oriented theory of natural human-machine interaction that can be put into practice by the engineers and industrial designers of tomorrow's thinking machines. This is a consumer-oriented look at the perils and promise of the smart objects of the future, and a cautionary tale for designers of these objects-many of which are already in use or development.